Bush on Libby: presumed innocent and entitled to due process

[sabra]

http://www.wkrn.com/global/story.asp?s=4043622&ClientType=Printable

Bush on Libby: presumed innocent and entitled to due process

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush said Friday he was saddened by the indictment and resignation of vice presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, adding that "in our system each individual is presumed innocent and entitled to due process and a fair trial."

Speaking a few hours after Libby's indictment in the CIA leak investigation, Bush said the departed aide had "sacrificed much" and served in "extraordinary times in our nation's history."

Bush, speaking shortly before boarding a helicopter for a trip to the presidential retreat at Camp David, Md., also declared he remained "fully focused " on the issues confronting the country.

"We've got a job to protect the American people, and that's what we'll continue working hard to do," the president said. He added that he would name a new justice to the Supreme Court "pretty soon."

[Boo Boo]

1. Presumed innocent until pardoned. /nt

[spindrifter]

2. Unless they

put you out of the system as a suspected terrorist, in which case they justify no access to any human rights. Don't worry, B*shie, these words will come back to you over and over again.

[shanti]

3. there he goes, "working hard"

:eyes:

[elehhhhna]

4. ...justlike @ GITMO? lol. FLIP FLOP

[FloridaPat]

5. As long as he has an executive order that he can suspend US

terrorist rights, he's lying about this. Just ask Mr. Padilla - the guy arrested in for thinking about a dirty bomb. He has been held without charges and unable to go to court to prove his innocence)

[mark11727]

6. If ONLY Scooter had a freaking FUSE sticking out of his shoes...

...he'd be labeled an "enemy combatant", and that would be that.

[Supersedeas]

7. in YOUR system Mr. President we have Jose Padilla